Re: High Pressure Oxygen Pipe

From: <Christopher>
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 09:42:00 EDT

>There are some special rules
>(design codes) for oxygen pipe designing?
The most special rule I know of is cleanliness. Oxygen piping must be specially cleaned to remove every single teeny tiny trace of hydrocarbon and it must be kept that way with special packaging. Hydrocarbons in the presence of pure oxygen will explode violently.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=k-6fzZsHu1hH0vqV8XsvDUveVXlsplbkYNnvGvczOgJYHtxjF8avtObAX-LBq2tJVdhN21Qr1zggOCxQ">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a> Received on Thu Apr 17 09:42:00 2003